International audienceIn this paper, we analyse the morpho-syntactic and semantic functioning of the expression en passant par in French, in synchrony as well as in diachrony (1500-2011). A corpus-based study brings clearly out two very different behaviours of this expression respectively in the sixteenth century and in Modern French. All differences revealed by our analysis suggest an obvious evolution that results in a coexistence in contemporary French of a free construction corresponding to the gerund of the verb passer 'to pass' followed by a PP in par (e.g. J'ai vu une boulangerie en passant par cette rue) with the non compositional expression en passant par, similar in many ways to prepositions (e.g. Il a tout lu de Montaigne à Gary ...
International audienceFois exists in many expressions with a major distinction which is summarized i...
In Modern French, the preposition à has a large number of uses, in contrast to the Latin preposition...
I discuss the notion of 'passage' in language and cognition by means of a detailed semantic analysis...
In this paper, we analyse the morpho-syntactic and semantic functioning of the expression en passant...
International audienceIn this paper, we analyse the morpho-syntactic and semantic functioning of the...
Since the 17 century, French has had both the categories of adverbs and prepositions, each represent...
This article examines the pragmaticization process of the phrase en attendant in French. It first se...
French perfects can receive at least two contextual interpretations : the one is usually called acco...
A close examination of a wide corpus of occurrences enclosing the preposition PAR allows us to disce...
The aim of this paper is to make sure whether there is a relation of continuity among the different ...
International audienceThe goal of this contribution is to determine the phenomena involved in the fo...
International audienceAn observation of the data (literature and dictionaries) shows that until the ...
International audienceIn French, as in many typologically different languages, andative and venitive...
International audienceOn the past participle in French: behavior, value in language and effects of m...
The aim of the research is to better understand the use of the French gérondif (i.e. en parlant) and...
International audienceFois exists in many expressions with a major distinction which is summarized i...
In Modern French, the preposition à has a large number of uses, in contrast to the Latin preposition...
I discuss the notion of 'passage' in language and cognition by means of a detailed semantic analysis...
In this paper, we analyse the morpho-syntactic and semantic functioning of the expression en passant...
International audienceIn this paper, we analyse the morpho-syntactic and semantic functioning of the...
Since the 17 century, French has had both the categories of adverbs and prepositions, each represent...
This article examines the pragmaticization process of the phrase en attendant in French. It first se...
French perfects can receive at least two contextual interpretations : the one is usually called acco...
A close examination of a wide corpus of occurrences enclosing the preposition PAR allows us to disce...
The aim of this paper is to make sure whether there is a relation of continuity among the different ...
International audienceThe goal of this contribution is to determine the phenomena involved in the fo...
International audienceAn observation of the data (literature and dictionaries) shows that until the ...
International audienceIn French, as in many typologically different languages, andative and venitive...
International audienceOn the past participle in French: behavior, value in language and effects of m...
The aim of the research is to better understand the use of the French gérondif (i.e. en parlant) and...
International audienceFois exists in many expressions with a major distinction which is summarized i...
In Modern French, the preposition à has a large number of uses, in contrast to the Latin preposition...
I discuss the notion of 'passage' in language and cognition by means of a detailed semantic analysis...